📢 2025-2027 Awards Announced
About WSDA Farm to School Purchasing Grants
2025-2027 Grant Application Results
WSDA awarded Farm to School Purchasing Grants to 101 successful applicants (86 school meals and 15 childcare meals), totaling $3,547,200 for the 2025-2027 biennium. WSDA received a total of 129 applications with funding requests totaling $6,969,324, almost double the amount of available funds.
Grant Overview
In the 2021-2023 biennium budget, the Washington state legislature allocated $5 million in ongoing funding to expand WSDA's Farm to School program, including a new grant program. Begun in 2021, WSDA Farm to School Purchasing Grants are intended to support schools and early learning services in procuring high quality, nutritious, culturally relevant foods for their meal programs. The program emphasizes procurement from small and direct marketing farms and food businesses, including socially disadvantaged, beginning, limited resource, women and veteran farmers and ranchers.
Grant Impacts
Since 2021, WSDA has granted over $12 million in Farm to School Purchasing Grants across 371 awards over five (5) funding cycles. Grants reach districts in every corner of the state and support purchases of more than 170 unique local foods from more than 360 individual farms and food businesses.
To learn more about the impacts past grantees have made on Washington children, farmers and local food systems, explore our two infographics:
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Grant Impacts: 2022-2023 Annual Report
This infographic shows the impacts Farm to School Purchasing Grants made on Washington children, farmers and local food systems during the 2022-2023 school year.
Past Grant Awards
Since 2021, WSDA has awarded over $8.5 million in Farm to School Purchasing Grants. This total represents 268 grant awards across four (4) funding cycles. Click the button below for information about past grant awards.
Additional Information
For more information on Frequently Asked Questions, see or FAQs page.
To see information about our last two grant rounds and their impact on children, farmers and local food systems, see our Awarded Grants page.
If you are a producer interested in selling to grant beneficiaries, please see our For Producers page.
To see information about our last two grant rounds and their impact on children, farmers and local food systems, see our Awarded Grants page.
If you are a producer interested in selling to grant beneficiaries, please see our For Producers page.